It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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